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    Post-Mizu5, Mizuki is in the Sekai, lamenting her own cowardice. Like always. Like she always has. As she always will. After all, she’s only good for running away.

    …or at least, that’s what she thinks.
    It will take all three of her groupmate’s love to remind her that sometimes, being afraid is fine.

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    “Lookin’ good there Mom.”

    Jinx squinted and blinked through blood-stained eyes, trying to figure out who the robotic voice belonged to. She was still in the pipes, probably. Self-sacrificing through explosives and a literal thousand pound beast landing on top of you tended to scramble a brain that already was a psychiatrists nightmare.

    The figure reached down, their hands reaching toward Jinx’s eyes. She attempted to swat away the hand, but her arms didn’t move. They felt like they had been turned to powder, heh.

    Her red-tinted world became clear as the blood was wiped away, and the figure became shaped and defined.

    A girl a few years younger than her stared back, blue-hair frazzled and a grin to match. A familiar helmet adorned her waist, and her fashion sense had a strange mix of Zaunite and Piltie garbs. Yet it was the hourglass neckless around her neck that made everything click, this girl looked exactly like-

    “Isha?”

    ——

    Or, Jinx just broke the cycle and is saved by Isha from a decade in the future. How are either of them alive? Why come back to this point in time? Isha won’t say, but Jinx doesn’t really care because she has her reason to live back. Well, Ekko’s around too.

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  3. Public Bookmark 48

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    Following the events of Arcane's final act, Jinx and Isha bailed out of the Twin Cities as quickly as they could. Stowing away on an airship, they had no destination in mind, only hoping to get out from Zaun and Piltover.

    The two weren't aware, but their airship was headed for Demacia, where they were soon to happen upon a strange mage called Lux.

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    Stinging, blurring, burning vision.

    Steady finger guns. A disturbingly distant handshake with the one she loved most in the world, one final time.

    Isha wished there was another way, but wishing had never saved her before.

    She had never felt as cared for by another person as she did in those last moments, wide amber eyes locked onto Jinx before she raised the smuggled gun, its three hextech gemstones flashing uncontrollably, and aimed it at the sky. She closed her eyes, envisioning her mentor, her strength, and pulled the trigger.

    — or —

    Isha survives the blast, with a little unexpected help—but not without a price.

    Jinx will do anything to protect her protégé, but what is Isha to her? A friend? A sister ? A daughter? Forced to confront the consequences of Isha's survival, Jinx becomes everything the child has always needed—perhaps even healing herself in the process.

    How long can their fragile world survive? Their own little fantasy, woven from love and chaos, teeters on the edge. Soon, everything they’ve built could crumble beneath them.

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    This wasn't how it was supposed to go.

    Jinx wasn't supposed to watch how the kid runs towards a monster she'd come to care for, towards a monster that was about kill her.
    Oh, but the irony.
    The gun was too big in Isha's little hands and her blue hair wasn't blue anymore. Ash was covering it, colouring it grey, her entire skin grey. She already looked dead.

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    What-if: Isha lives.

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